Cutaneous xanthogranulomatous inflammation: a potential indicator of internal disease.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Cutaneous xanthogranulomatous inflammation is usually regarded as a primary disease process. We describe two patients with xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis and nephro-cutaneous fistulae, one patient with xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis and a chole-cutaneous fistula and one patient with xanthogranulomatous appendicitis and appendiceal-cutaneous fistula. After the first case, awareness that cutaneous xanthogranulomatous inflammation can be secondary to related internal disease played a vital diagnostic role in the subsequent cases.
Medical subject headings
- Granuloma
- Pyelonephritis, Xanthogranulomatous
- Skin Diseases
- Xanthomatosis